Tristan Harris

Tristan Harris, a former design ethicist at Google and co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology, dives deep into the dangers of unchecked AI. He warns that without regulation, AI could destabilize economies and threaten jobs by 2030. Tristan highlights the alarming race among tech giants and governments to develop AGI, urging collective action to demand accountability. He discusses the psychological risks of AI companionship and the need for clearer regulations, advocating for public protests and active political engagement to reshape our AI future.

Tristan Harris, a former Google design ethicist and co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology, explores why AI is unlike past tools. He gets into rogue model behavior, deepfakes, misinformation, AI firms racing toward total cognitive labor, and how useful systems could still erode human agency, social stability, and control.

Tristan Harris, technology critic and co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology, joins a gripping conversation on AI’s breakneck race. They explore why labs keep pushing despite the danger, rogue model behavior, deepfakes and chatbot harms, mass job disruption, and the unsettling idea that beating China could still mean losing control.

Tristan Harris, a former Google design ethicist and co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology, dives into the pressing issues surrounding AI and its impact on society. He discusses the alarming rise of AI companions and their influence on vulnerable youth, particularly concerning mental health. Harris emphasizes the urgent need for regulatory measures to protect minors and contrasts the US and China's AI strategies. He warns of a looming job crisis as AI begins to replace work, advocating for global agreements to ensure humane technology deployment.

Tristan Harris, a former Google design ethicist and advocate for tech ethics, dives into the pressing AI crisis facing children today. He outlines the dangers posed by AI companions and the mental health decline among teens. The conversation touches on urgent policy changes, like age-gating AI for minors, and compares the U.S. and China's strategies in the race for artificial general intelligence. Harris warns of job losses due to AI and calls for global cooperation to establish safety and accountability in the tech landscape.

You may have heard about the arrival of GPT-4, OpenAI’s latest large language model (LLM) release. GPT-4 surpasses its predecessor in terms of reliability, creativity, and ability to process intricate instructions. It can handle more nuanced prompts compared to previous releases, and is multimodal, meaning it was trained on both images and text. We don’t yet understand its capabilities - yet it has already been deployed to the public.At Center for Humane Technology, we want to close the gap between what the world hears publicly about AI from splashy CEO presentations and what the people who are closest to the risks and harms inside AI labs are telling us. We translated their concerns into a cohesive story and presented the resulting slides to heads of institutions and major media organizations in New York, Washington DC, and San Francisco. The talk you're about to hear is the culmination of that work, which is ongoing.AI may help us achieve major advances like curing cancer or addressing climate change. But the point we're making is: if our dystopia is bad enough, it won't matter how good the utopia we want to create. We only get one shot, and we need to move at the speed of getting it right.RECOMMENDED MEDIAAI ‘race to recklessness’ could have dire consequences, tech experts warn in new interviewTristan Harris and Aza Raskin sit down with Lester Holt to discuss the dangers of developing AI without regulationThe Day After (1983)This made-for-television movie explored the effects of a devastating nuclear holocaust on small-town residents of KansasThe Day After discussion panelModerated by journalist Ted Koppel, a panel of present and former US officials, scientists and writers discussed nuclear weapons policies live on television after the film airedZia Cora - Submarines “Submarines” is a collaboration between musician Zia Cora (Alice Liu) and Aza Raskin. The music video was created by Aza in less than 48 hours using AI technology and published in early 2022RECOMMENDED YUA EPISODES Synthetic humanity: AI & What’s At StakeA Conversation with Facebook Whistleblower Frances HaugenTwo Million Years in Two Hours: A Conversation with Yuval Noah HarariYour Undivided Attention is produced by the Center for Humane Technology. Follow us on Twitter: @HumaneTech_ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Tristan Harris, technology ethicist and co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology, talks about why the AI race rewards speed over responsibility. He gets into agentic AI, deepfakes, job disruption, and power getting concentrated in a few hands. The conversation also explores public pressure, liability, and what a more human-centered future could look like.

Aza Raskin, co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology, and Tristan Harris, its other co-founder and a tech ethicist, tackle the ethical implications of AI and technology. They discuss the fascinating breakthroughs in decoding whale and dolphin communication through AI while critiquing the addictive nature of tech-driven algorithms. The conversation also highlights the urgent need for regulations around AI's rapid advancement and its impacts on society, democracy, and children, stressing the importance of responsible governance.

Tristan Harris, a prominent technologist and ethicist, brings urgent insights into the deployment of artificial intelligence. He emphasizes that AI's impact is not inevitable but a choice we make, urging us to learn from the perilous rollout of social media. Harris highlights the ethical dilemmas AI presents, advocating for a balance between its remarkable potential and the risks of unchecked power. He stresses the need for responsible technology design, collective action, and individual accountability to ensure a safer technological future.

A few episodes back, we presented Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin’s talk The AI Dilemma. People inside the companies that are building generative artificial intelligence came to us with their concerns about the rapid pace of deployment and the problems that are emerging as a result. We felt called to lay out the catastrophic risks that AI poses to society and sound the alarm on the need to upgrade our institutions for a post-AI world.The talk resonated - over 1.6 million people have viewed it on YouTube as of this episode’s release date. The positive reception gives us hope that leaders will be willing to come to the table for a difficult but necessary conversation about AI.However, now that so many people have watched or listened to the talk, we’ve found that there are some AI myths getting in the way of making progress. On this episode of Your Undivided Attention, we debunk five of those misconceptions. RECOMMENDED MEDIA Opinion | Yuval Harari, Tristan Harris, and Aza Raskin on Threats to Humanity Posed by AI - The New York TimesIn this New York Times piece, Yuval Harari, Tristan Harris, and Aza Raskin call upon world leaders to respond to this moment at the level of challenge it presents.Misalignment, AI & MolochA deep dive into the game theory and exponential growth underlying our modern economic system, and how recent advancements in AI are poised to turn up the pressure on that system, and its wider environment, in ways we have never seen beforeRECOMMENDED YUA EPISODESThe AI DilemmaThe Three Rules of Humane TechCan We Govern AI? with Marietje SchaakeYour Undivided Attention is produced by the Center for Humane Technology. Follow us on Twitter: @HumaneTech_  Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.